ANIMALS

Heartwarming Tales Of Animals Rescuing Fellow Creatures: Even Predators Can Be Heroes Too

In the wild, it’s often a battle between prey and predator. Animals typically don’t assist or interact with one another since they’re focused on survival. The same applies to pets in a domestic setting. Your pet cat may not be keen on getting close to your newly adopted dog, and your parrot’s squawks could startle the small cat.

Children’s TV shows like Tom & Jerry, Tweety Bird, and Sylvester from Looney Tunes have popularized this idea of “frenemies.” It portrays a power struggle among animals, emphasizing dominance rather than friendship in their hierarchy.

However, animals have shown us that this mindset is mistaken. They have surpassed these boundaries, and numerous inter-species friendships have emerged in their lives. Animals extend help to other species, not just their own kind. They offer support to those in need without considering traditional roles of prey, predator, companion, or enemy. We should learn valuable lessons from these animals and recognize them for who they truly are – whether as pets or farm animals – loving and intelligent beings deserving equal respect and the opportunity for a joyful life.

Heroes aren’t just limited to those in uniforms or life-saving professions. They exist right alongside us. Heroes come in various shapes, sizes, and forms. Surprisingly, some heroes aren’t even human.

You may have already come across the story of Tara, the cat who bravely defended her human “brother” by confronting a stray dog. Or perhaps you’ve heard about the bear at the Budapest Zoo who rescued a drowning bird in its enclosure. These are just a couple of examples among countless stories of animals saving lives. Every day, remarkable animals emerge as heroes, whether they’re rescuing their own kind, other species, or even people.

Every instance of animal heroism serves as evidence of the emotional and cognitive capabilities of non-human animals. It highlights the striking similarities between these creatures and ourselves, emphasizing that they are more alike to us than dissimilar.

ANIMALS

Amazing Video of Unseen Ocean Creatures in the Ningaloo Canyons

The Schmidt Ocean Institute recently explored the Ningaloo Canyons on the western coast of Australia using a robotic underwater vehicle called the ROV Sebastian. Check out the amazing video of what they discovered in the deep parts of the Indian Ocean.

More info: Youtube

ANIMALS

These Pics Are Art and the Artists Are Insects

Flying insects move so quickly that they are hard to follow, but new technology and some smart ideas have helped Spanish photographer Xavi Bou do just that. After spending 10 years focusing on birds in flight for his Ornithographies project, he turned his attention to insects.

For Entomographies, he uses high-speed video footage taken by Adrian Smith, an insect expert at North Carolina State University, to study and record how insects move. Bou then picks multiple frames and combines them into single images that show the fast movements of one or more insects through space and time.

With Smith’s help, Bou has captured the aerial tricks of wasps, the jumps of leafhoppers, and the fluttering of butterflies in amazing detail. He hopes that by doing this, he can make people more aware of the decline in important insect populations around the world.

1. Zebra longwing

This butterfly, which is common in many areas of the Americas, really fits its name. It can fly very high with just a few flaps of its large wings.